“Prominent Lebanese writer Elias Khoury’s literary prowess is on display in the Hebrew version of ‘As Though She Were Sleeping,’ about the relationship between a Palestinian man from Jaffa and a girl from Beirut in 1947”. A review by Sheren Falah Saab published at Haaretz newspaper.
Check out this article by Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, Maktoob’s chief editor who translated several novels of Elias Khoury to Hebrew, to the latest issue of “Banipal” magazine.
Raef Zreik, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin and Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani met in cold, snowy Vienna for a dialogue with Elias Khoury, the renowned Lebanese writer, professor of literature, editor, and essayist. Read the complete dialogue here.
How can the absentees possibly write about a space and time from which they are removed? What happens to the first person narrator when they are stripped of their story that is then handed over to that illusive third person presence? Questions raised by Prof. Yehouda Shenhav Shahrabani at this afterward that he wrote to Elias Khoury’s novel “Stella Maris”.
JLS- Journal of Levantine Studies issue dedicated to language and translation and spotlighted the relationship between Arabic and Hebrew.
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, the book illuminated for me some of the images of death that my family members ,carried with them from the Nazi camps. Comments on the novel “Children of the Ghetto – My Name is Adam,” by Elias Khoury.
“Elias Khoury’s ‘Children of the Ghetto’ adds a new layer to the Israeli-Palestinian story”, Avraham Burg reviews Khoury’s latest novel translated and published in Hebrew by Maktoob Series.